FERC last week approved Transwestern Pipeline’s proposals tobuild a new Gallup compressor station on the San Juan lateral nearits mainline and to install cooling equipment at two existingcompressor stations also on the lateral. Both measures are designedto alleviate on-going constraints on the lateral and bring thepipeline up to its certificated capacity level of 1.09 Bcf/d fordelivery to California.
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Pipelines, Producers Argue Investments, Returns
Producers are eating a bigger slice of the revenue pie,pipelines claim. Pipelines, however, are piling up a much greaterreturn for a much smaller investment, producers retort. And that’sjust the beginning of the arguments spawned by FERC’s probing thepossibility of lighter-handed regulation of pipelines, includingnegotiated terms and conditions.
April 22, 1999